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Re:Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the Fir... by rayiner on Friday March 04, 2016 @12:24AM (#11222188)
It is contradictory, to the extent that you believe Citizens United was wrong because corporations don't have First Amendment Rights.

Note that the "is money speech" question is a total red herring. Citizens United was about a movie critical of Hilary Clinton. It was as core to the First Amendment as it gets. If anything Citizens United, a non-profit organization that exists for the purpose of promoting political messages, is far more entitled to speech rights than Apple, a for-profit company that has little political involvement.

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Re:Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the Fir... by guelo on Friday March 04, 2016 @01:00AM (#11222293)
It wasn't the producing or broadcasting of the movie that was prohibited under the previous campaign finance laws, it was the paying for ads to promote it and the paying to have it aired. The court ruled that Congress could not ban paying for these services because it violated their free speech. So yes, they didn't rule that "money is speech" but they did rule that using money is speech.
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Re:Why Forcing Apple to Write and Sign Code Violates the Fir... by rayiner on Friday March 04, 2016 @01:05AM (#11222312)
> but they did rule that using money [to speak] is speech.

Corrected.

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